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[edit] ODU book consolidation
Not that I'm planning to tackle it right away, but I was contemplating merging the various editions of Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education and Foundations of Education and Instructional Assessment at some point in the future. The point of a wiki is to be able to improve upon previous content and these books, when creating subsequent editions for newer classes, often duplicated the prior edition's content and worked off of that, rather than improving upon existing pages. Looking at the tables of contents, the different editions are extremely similar. Now that the classes have finished with these two books, it would seem prudent to refactor them so that they are more inviting for the general populace to work with. Of course edit histories would be merged in the process. Any objections or thoughts? -- Adrignola talk contribs 15:12, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, these versions seriously need to be merged. I slightly feel we've been taken advantage of by ODU in that they should have done the refactoring themselves. I noticed this a while back, but always felt this was too big a task to deal with — especially since the books were actively being worked on. If they aren't at work on yet another version and you're up for it, this might be just the time to merge these versions. Also, we might want to keep an eye out for this sort of (well-intentioned) behaviour in the future so that hard-working Wikibookians don't get thrown yet more work to shovel through... --Swift (talk) 16:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
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- I would think that Wikiversity is a better place for this kind of course texts. Only one version should be hosted on Wikibooks. --Martin Kraus (talk) 10:42, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[edit] deference beetwen jobsatisfaction& motivation
deference between job satisfaction& motivation —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tarannum (talk • contribs) .
- Hello, is this a question or a suggestion for a book, or something else? If you could clarify your meaning somebody could be able to help. Thanks. QU TalkQu 16:39, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
[edit] 3D Robot
Hello all! I'm all about giant robots/mechs. I'm using blender to make 3D models of them. I'm still tutorialing, but once I've got it down pat... WHAT SHOULD I START WITH?!?!?!?!?! Plz answer. --68.221.140.66 (talk) 01:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Grayson wolowicz
- I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Could you clarify? --Swift (talk) 02:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[edit] alphabetic sorting of DynamicPageLists
Good news: if I understand it correctly, in revision r60800 of MediaWiki (currently wikibooks uses r59858) we might finally be able to sort DynamicPageLists (which are used on the subject pages) alphabetically (using ordermethod=categorysortkey ). --Martin Kraus (talk) 20:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed new book:Pre-Han China
I've provided the outline of a proposed book here. Any comments? Kayau David Copperfield MOBY DICK the great gatsby 10:46, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Starting a book for computer beginers
Hello everybody, I'm just writing to say hello and declare my intentions. Basically, its my experience that lots of people have no idea how computers work, so I want to fix that. The current book on the site is really good at explaining what things are, and how to use them, but I want to take a different track: I want to make the reader know why computers are the way they are.
As an example: in making a manual for a car, you could just include instructions for changing the oil, tires and air filter. But what'd be really good is a manual that told you how the engine generates power, how the oil keeps things going, and how the cooling systems works. A car owner with such a manual would know things about their car without having to be explicitly told, because they understand the basic idea of how thing should work.
When it's all said and done, I want a book that I can hand to my grandma, and which she can read without fear or confusion. And hopefully when she's done reading it, she'll be able to do anything with a computer that she wants to, or anything she wants to learn about.
So, that's the idea. I'll have more specifics of the philosophy of the book on the book page itself.
Peace, --Jdbaker (talk) 07:11, 3 February 2010 (UTC)-
- Good luck with your project. You may be interested in Help:Starting a new page or book but the rest of the help pages can be accessed at Help:Contents (or from the "Help" link in the navigation box, under the logo). --Swift (talk) 19:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
